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Beyond API Sourcing: Avoiding Supply Disruptions For Small Molecule Drugs

Supply resilience should be assessed across the complete drug product pathway rather than measured by the number of vendors listed in a procurement system.

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Your 7 Decisions To Make Before MES Configuration
Don't wait until manufacturing execution system (MES) configuration to answer these 7 questions. Define your manufacturing process before digitizing it.
The Orange Book's Blind Spot: Process Stability And Capability
The current system for assuring therapeutic equivalence contains structural blind spots. Companies must evolve rather than merely adding corrective actions.
Are You Falling Behind On Intelligent Pharmaceutical Manufacturing?
With a focus on small molecule drug product manufacture, let's take a closer look at the efficiencies gained through closed-loop control, PAT, digital twins, and more.
DEA Reveals Hidden Costs Of Analytical Validation Guidelines
By treating distinct validation guidelines as decision-making units, data envelopment analysis (DEA) allows for the mathematical evaluation of their resource efficiency.
Qualification And Validation Of Depyrogenation Tunnels And Autoclaves
Systemic vulnerabilities exist in thermal uniformity assurance, steam penetration verification, regulatory fragmentation, and tech harmonization.
FDA Modernizes Container Closure Guidance: What Is Changing And Why It Matters
The proposed revision reflects changes in packaging technology, drug delivery systems, quality risk management, and more that have occurred since 1999's guidance.
CDMO Selection Beyond Capabilities And Price
Some of the most useful information relevant to CDMO selection is also the hardest to obtain. Here are suggestions for uncovering data that tells the whole capability story.
August 2026 — CDMO Opportunities And Threats Report
Each month, Outsourced Pharma works in conjunction with PharmSource, part of GlobalData, to present its “Contract Manufacturing: Opportunities and Threats (CMOT) Report” to our readers. The report identifies CDMOs that might be impacted by key events affecting their clients, including company acquisitions, product acquisitions and licenses, product approvals, late clinical product terminations, and FDA rejections.

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A Faster Path To Genomic Medicine Feasibility
Life Edit accelerates genomic medicine by comparing five editing modalities, engineering new enzymes, and rapidly pinpointing optimal strategies that boost feasibility, cut risk, and speed clinical progress.

Fill-Finish Contract Manufacturing: Trends, Challenges, And The Future
See why it's important to partner with a CDMO that’s investing in advanced sterile fill-finish capabilities to meet the demands of complex biologics, gene therapies, and mRNA-based products.
Advances In High-Concentration Protein Formulation Development
High-concentration protein formulations improve patient convenience but face challenges like viscosity, aggregation, and surfactant degradation. Innovative strategies optimize stability, scalability, and quality for advanced biologics development.
Navigating CMC Regulation For Plasmid DNA In Gene Therapy
Explore how evolving regulatory pathways and CMC innovation are shaping the future of gene therapy and viral vector production, plus what to consider when selecting a CDMO partner.
Redefining The Analytical Frameworks Surrounding Capsid Characterization
Modern AAV manufacturing demands precise capsid characterization to distinguish empty, partial, and full particles, as regulators now require rigorous purity and potency control for clinical safety.
Selecting The Best Deterministic Method For Your CCIT Project
Container Closure Integrity Testing (CCIT) ensures drug sterility, evolving with regulatory updates like USP <1207>. Deterministic methods are preferred over probabilistic ones to maintain product integrity.